James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
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James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and became a leading Jacobite figure after being impeached for his role in the early 18th-century Tory ministry.
All labels observed (3)
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| James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde canonical | 5 |
| 2nd Duke of Ormonde | 1 |
| James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11565876 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde Context triple: [House of Butler, notableMember, James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde]
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James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier, and statesman who played a leading role in Royalist politics and military campaigns in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Restoration era.
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Duke of Ormonde
The Duke of Ormonde was a prominent hereditary title in the Peerage of Ireland, most famously held by the influential Butler family, whose members played major political and military roles in Irish and British history.
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Viscount Boyle
Viscount Boyle is a noble title historically associated with the prominent Anglo-Irish Boyle family, influential in British and Irish aristocratic and political life.
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James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond
James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, was a prominent 16th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman and statesman who played a key role in Tudor politics and the governance of Ireland.
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Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde
Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman of the powerful Black Douglas family who played a leading role in their final rebellion against King James II of Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde Target entity description: James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and became a leading Jacobite figure after being impeached for his role in the early 18th-century Tory ministry.
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James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, was a prominent 17th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier, and statesman who played a leading role in Royalist politics and military campaigns in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Restoration era.
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B.
Duke of Ormonde
The Duke of Ormonde was a prominent hereditary title in the Peerage of Ireland, most famously held by the influential Butler family, whose members played major political and military roles in Irish and British history.
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C.
Viscount Boyle
Viscount Boyle is a noble title historically associated with the prominent Anglo-Irish Boyle family, influential in British and Irish aristocratic and political life.
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D.
James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond
James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, was a prominent 16th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman and statesman who played a key role in Tudor politics and the governance of Ireland.
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E.
Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde
Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman of the powerful Black Douglas family who played a leading role in their final rebellion against King James II of Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde Description of subject: James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and became a leading Jacobite figure after being impeached for his role in the early 18th-century Tory ministry.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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